Etsy·Software Engineer

Etsy Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

IrelandPosted Jun 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

I started with a recruiter phone screen, but the interviewer never showed up.

It had been scheduled on a public holiday during Easter, and after I reached out they agreed to reschedule, which I only did reluctantly. Once I got past that stage, the next technical round started with availability questions and a note about the format of what I’d be tested on.

The test was described as “language-agnostic,” and I was told it would be in Python, even though the role I applied for wouldn’t use Python. The interview itself ended up forcing me to figure out Python syntax to make the test pass, and I leaned on Google, which ate into my time. I had to fix five bugs and implement

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